SideView Utils - Automatically drilldown on first row in Table Module

I have a dashboard that uses the Search Module ---> Table Module ---> Gate Module. The Gate module transports tokens to another Gate Module that sits idle waiting for the 'row.fields.ext_refid' value in order to launch it's downstream modules.

What I want to do is automatically have the drilldown occur on the first result in the table module. This way users won't have to click the first row to drilldown.

I tried:

-use "ResultsValueSetter" to create the token "ext_refid" before the Table Module -then, in the table module, I use the default param as follows: default.row.fields.ext_refid = $ext_refid$

Using the SideView Utils Editor in RunTime Debugger Mode, it looks like the value is being interpreted literally as $ext_refid$ instead of the token value.

Is this possible? I have a feeling it is and I'm overlooking some simple procedure.